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Music Basics

Music Basics

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Education, Performing Arts, Other

6th - 8th Grade

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Peyton Gajurel

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14 Slides • 10 Questions

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Music Basics

Today we will be reviewing aspects of how to read music, including important vocabulary that we will use often.

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How do we read music?

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Music Vocabulary: 

  • Staff made up of five lines and four spaces, always labeled from BOTTOM to TOP.

  • Barlines that separate the staff.

  • Measures, which are the space between two barlines.

  • Double barline, which tells us when the song is complete.

  • Time signature, which tells us which type of note receives the beat and how many beats there are in each measure.

  • Key Signature, which tells us what notes to sing.

  • Clef, which also tells us what notes we are to sing.

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Repeat Sign

  • Sometimes in music you will see this symbol.

  • This symbol means that you go back a repeat a previous section.

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Multiple Choice

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What do we write music on?

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Staff

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Measure

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Barline

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Multiple Choice

How many lines are on a staff?

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3

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4

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5

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6

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Multiple Choice

How many spaces are on a staff?

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3

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4

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5

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6

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Multiple Choice

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The space between two barlines is called...

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Measure

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Staff

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Barline

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Multiple Choice

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A staff is separated by...

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Barlines

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Measures

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Staves

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Lines

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Multiple Select

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Which parts of a staff help us to know what notes to sing before we start singing?

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Time Signature

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Key Signature

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Clef

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Multiple Choice

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What does the double barline tell us?

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The song is over.

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The song is half way finished.

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The song has started.

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It doesn't tell us anything except that it is separating the staff.

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Multiple Choice

When labeling the lines and spaces of the staff, we always label from...

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TOP to BOTTOM

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BOTTOM to TOP

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We use these phrases because it is easy to remember Treble Clef = People and Bass Clef = Animals

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Multiple Choice

The phrase to remember the lines and spaces for the Treble Clef is all about...

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Animals

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People

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Multiple Choice

The phrase to remember the lines and spaces of the Bass Clef is all about...

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Animals

2

People

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When we count and label rhythm practices, we always say the BIG numbers, not the small numbers.

  • This mean whole notes would be 1234.

  • This means half notes would be 1234.

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How do we count this rhythm sample?

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https://youtu.be/KciT9yssFmw

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Let's count the first line together.

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Let's count the second line together.

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Let's count the third line together.

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Let's count the fourth line together and then count all four lines in order.

Music Basics

Today we will be reviewing aspects of how to read music, including important vocabulary that we will use often.

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